A Woman Is Going Into Labor

... so the husband and wife quickly head to the hospital. After they arrive the doctor comes into the room and says to the couple, "We have developed a new experimental treatment where we can hook you up to a machine and transfer some of the pain from labor to the father. I warn you though that even 10% transference will be the most pain he has ever felt before in his life." The husband, not wanting his wife to suffer, said okay to the treatment. So the doctor hooks the woman up to the machine and turns it on to 5% just to start. After a few minutes of waiting he asks the husband if he's okay to increase the percentage and he says yes. The doctor continues to crank it up to 10% and again asks the husband if he's okay and again the husband says that he's fine. The doctor, a little confused now, turns the machine up higher to 50%. The husband still says that he's fine and the wife seems to be feeling much less pain. The doctor, completely bewildered now, cranks the machine all the way up to 100% and the baby is delivered relatively pain free and the couple go home.

When they get home the mail man is dead on the porch.